68

58

75.0

73.3

73.0

.574

.593

0.5%

40.6%

41.1%

0.7%

-5.1%

67

61

66.6

64.4

64.6

.513

.493

3.6%

39.5%

43.1%

3.1%

24.1%

I'm not sure what the new Cobb County stadium will be called, but they're missing out if it's not called Land Of The Free.

5

69

57

62.8

65.9

65.7

.523

.503

41.1%

36.3%

77.4%

-3.8%

11.5%

The clubhouse hasn't become divided over A.J. Pierzynski yet, but Pierzynski has divided the clubhouse into two lists he made: "people with worse hair than me" and "people I haven't seen with their hats off yet."

6

71

56

68.5

67.1

66.7

.538

.518

55.5%

34.8%

90.4%

-0.8%

10.6%

By WAR among Brewers who played at least 50 percent of their games at catcher, Jonathan Lucroy is the second most valuable catcher in Brewers history. Sidebar: BJ Surhoff was a catcher?

7

76

50

73.4

78.0

77.1

.604

.623

68.6%

31.2%

99.7%

0.1%

0.9%

68

57

66.8

68.4

67.6

.542

.561

44.7%

24.4%

69.1%

-3.6%

0.6%

Prior to this year, Rick Porcello never threw a complete game in five full seasons. This year he leads the American League in shutouts. He has as many complete games as the Orioles and Mariners combined.

9

70

56

66.5

60.7

62.1

.514

.534

51.9%

21.7%

73.6%

2.9%

10.7%

You know those fractions of pennies that the guys in Office Space tried to steal? Maybe instead of a bank account, they accidentally funneled into Alex Gordon's defensive metrics.

10

65

62

63.0

65.5

66.4

.511

.491

3.3%

18.5%

21.8%

-1.2%

-33.8%

Well doctor, I had this weird dream that a baseball team was being single-handedly kept alive in the playoff race by Travis Snider. What do you think it means?

11

72

57

70.3

73.9

72.3

.559

.539

82.5%

14.5%

97.0%

0.2%

-2.4%

Growing up, Clayton Kershaw's parents would always be, "okay, you have to get a haircut like a grownup unless you throw a shutout." The rest was history.

12

64

62

64.8

64.2

63.4

.509

.529

3.4%

4.9%

8.3%

-2.2%

2.1%

"Corey Kluber lost? Trade him!" the rest of the AL Central suggested.

13

65

62

64.3

65.2

64.6

.510

.530

1.3%

4.0%

5.2%

0.3%

-5.2%

There's not much good news to report from the Blue Jays camp so let's just again point out that John Gibbons is a synonym for "toilet monkeys."

14

64

61

58.0

58.2

58.7

.478

.498

1.3%

3.5%

4.7%

1.6%

-2.2%

Both Yankees shutouts this year (Brandon McCarthy yesterday, Masahiro Tanaka in May) had eight strikeouts, four hits and no walks. Yet we've never seen both shutouts in the same room together.

15

63

63

60.1

60.6

59.8

.483

.463

0.2%

3.5%

3.6%

-1.0%

-2.4%

Every fiber of my being wants me to make Marlins jokes, but they already have more wins than all of last year. I cannot. The joke is on me.

16

73

53

74.9

74.5

73.6

.587

.568

96.2%

2.7%

98.9%

-0.0%

2.3%

Maybe we should call them the Walkoffington Nationals? But then you'd have to rename our nation's capital Walkoffington D.C., and think of the paperwork.

17

73

52

69.8

68.7

69.1

.561

.581

97.1%

1.1%

98.2%

-0.2%

4.2%

One of their starting pitchers *has* to be a time-traveling Mike Mussina, I just know it.

18

62

65

65.4

69.5

69.6

.524

.544

0.4%

0.8%

1.2%

0.5%

-4.9%

The Rays won their first game in franchise history with a single hit, and of course it happened against David Price.